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First Edition. Zustand: vg+. vg+ ex library 1st Council for British Archaeology large 1991 edition paperback In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 224pp, five black and white fold-out, various in-text illustrations and charts. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 4to. Lender applied semi-rigid protective plastic; small fold top front corner; shelf number label taped to spine. Text block edges just starting to tan. Lender's stamps and markings inside covers, half-title and copyright pages. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, March (Mar.) 1928, Vol. LX, No. 359 - Slave-Raiding Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police offi. Illustrated by Prater, Ernest; Carruthers, G.P.; Hiley, F.E.; Holloway,Cyril; Wigfull, W.E.; Briault, S.; Gale, W.G.; Goss, G.W.; Tresilian, S.;Potts, Leonard; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, H.M. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. A beautifully illustrated collection of early 20th-century travel books, with descriptions of London, Sicily, the Dolomites and more. A selection of early 20th-century travelogues and surveys of various places of interest across Europe, all of which were published by Adam and Charles Black.In the original decorative cloth bindings.Each beautifully illustrated with colour plates from various artists.The entirety of this set comprises the following works:The Riviera by William Scott (1907) - First Edition. Illustrated with paintings by the author. With seventy-five colour plates and a folding map to the rear. Our Life in the Swiss Highlands by John Addington Symonds and His Daughter Margaret (1907) Second edition. With twenty colour plates and a folding map to the rear.Sicily by Spencer C. Musson (1911) - First Edition. Illustrated with paintings by Alberto Pisa. With forty-eight tipped-in colour plates and a folding map to the rear.The Dolomites: King Laurin's Garden by Reginald Farrer (1913) - First Edition. Illustrated with paintings by E. Harrison Compton. With twenty colour plates and a folding map to the rear. London by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (1916) - Second edition, with extra illustrations. With sixty colour plates and a folding map to the rear.Collated, complete. In the original decorative cloth bindings. Externally, with damp staining to the spine of 'Swiss Highlands' and boards of 'Riviera' and 'London' (this being the most notable instance). Most notable wear to the spine head of 'Sicily', otherwise rubbing and bumping is moderate throughout set. Front hinge tender to 'London'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and scattered spots throughout 'London', 'Dolomites' and 'Swiss Highlands'. 'Sicily' and 'Riviera' are much more clean, with only the odd spot, most concentrated to the endpapers. Good. Alberto Pisa; William Scott; E. Harrison Compton (illustrator). book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Satan - story of a pet monkey in the Ivory Coast; Exploring in Brazil - photo-illustrated account of a sixteen-hundred mile trip up rapid-strewn rivers in a tiny launch through territory almost unknown to Europeans; The "King of the Clearwater" - a man claimed an area in Clearwater country, about sixty miles west of the North Thompson River, as his own and would go to any length to keep out intruders; The Ivory Raiders - Part II - a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the Swahili ivory-raiders and Turkana warriors of Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf; An Isle of Unrest - a chatty account of a little tramping holiday in Crete, with nice photos; Aquarium Adventures - remarkable stories of aquarium predicaments related by curators of various institutions; The Cat - Photo-illustrated tale from near Boise, Idaho; In Quest of the Unknown - Part IV - Photo-illustrated account of "Our adventures among the Chucunaque Indians (conclusion); The Second Touch - one of the queerest things that ever happened in Alaska; After a Native Murderer in Rhodesia - A B.S.A. Police trooper's story; On the "Devil's Staircase" - a New Zealand trapper's dangerous experience in a mountain blizzard; The Burmese Buddha - A stolen image of Buddha, stolen from the Shwe Dagon Pagoday, Rangoon, is returned after forty years; My Jungle Jaunts - Part II - An Englishwoman's experiences in Burma, with nice photos (conclusion); A Wild Goose Chase - A sportsman's account of his first experience with a wily Canada goose; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Cameron, John; Wigfull, W.E.; De Walton, John; Sutcliffe, Norman; Skelton, J.R.; Carruthers, G.P.; Leigh, Conrad; Dewar, W.; Hiley, F.E.; Goss, G.W. (illustrator).…